XMLSocket on OS X

Hi,
I'm building a flash app that uses XMLSocket to talk to
another app on the same machine on port 9090. It works on windows
just fine, either in IE or in a projector. However, on Mac OS X it
only works in a stand-alone projector. It will NOT connect when
opened in either Safari or Firefox. In fact, my onConnect handler
never gets called when run that way. Is this a sandbox issue? Do I
need to change some security settings?

Flash won't install while Safari is running. The usual process is to download the flash installation disk image, mount it, run the installer (which will ask you to quit Safari), and then re-launch Safari when done.
If you don't already have the flash installation disk image in "Downloads", you can get it at https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer. Quit Safari, mount the disk image and install. You should be good to go.

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How to get/process the Data from XMLSocket?

Hello All,
I'm using Adobe Professional CS6, and Actionscript 3.0.
To start with I have a C# program that basically just feeds data out from a Server in the form of XML data. I then have a Flash program that should receive the data and then I'll do some stuff with it. We had this working in Actionscript 1.0 but we need to upgrade the code to Actionscript 3.0, but instead of just trying to convert stuff over to the new Actionscript version, I'm going to re-write the program.
So far I've basically just defined some EventListeners most of which I found examples of online for using XMLSockets. As of now the Flash program will connect an XMLSocket to the Server that is feeding out the data, and the server feeding the data resends new data every 5-10 seconds or so.
So when a grouping of XML Data comes in on the port I defined, the following Function gets executed for handling the incoming data. For my EventListener's Function for "socket.addEventListener(DataEvent.DATA, dataHandler);" ("socket" is defined as --> var socket = new XMLSocket(); ). So when the new data comes in it executes the above function.
The trouble I'm having is declaring a new variable of type "XML" and then using that variable to pull out individual "nodes/children" from the incoming XML Data. I found an example online that was very close to what I want to do except instead of using an XMLSocket to get data constantly streaming in they use the "URLLoader" function to get the XML data. I know I'm receiving the XML data onto the server because if I set the (e: DataEvent) variable defined in the function "head" to a string and then run a trace on that I can see ALL of the XML data in the "Output Window".
But I can't seem to be able to set (e: DataEvent) to a XML variable so I can access individual elements of the XML data. The example I found (which uses the URLLoader instead) uses this line (myXML = new XML(e.target.data);) to set the XML Variable, which won't work for mine, and if I try to do the same thing in my code it simply prints this for as many lines as there is XML data --> "[object XMLSocket]"
MY CODE:
*I left out the other Functions that are in my code for the EventListeners you'll see defined below, except for the one in question:
 ---> "function dataHandler(e: DataEvent):void"
import flash.events.IOErrorEvent;
import flash.events.ProgressEvent;
import flash.events.SecurityErrorEvent;
import flash.events.DataEvent;
var socket = new XMLSocket();
socket.addEventListener(Event.CONNECT, connectHandler);
socket.addEventListener(Event.CLOSE, closeHandler);
socket.addEventListener(DataEvent.DATA, dataHandler);
socket.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, ioErrorHandler);
socket.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, progressHandler);
socket.addEventListener(SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR, securityErrorHandler);
var success = socket.connect('server.domain.name.local',3004);
The code in this function was used from an example I found online as described above in the post:
 LINK --> http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/as3xml/
// The Commented out code (*in blue) will show ALL the xml data inside the "Output Window":
function dataHandler(e: DataEvent):void {
 // var myStr:String = e.data;
 var xml:XML;
 xml = new XML(e.target.data); //<--- THIS DOESN"T WORK (I DONT THINK 'target' IS CORRECT HERE)??
 if (socket.connected)
 // trace(myStr)
 trace(xml);
The Output from the line "trace(xml)" will show this data below in the "Output Window" (*FYI There should be 6 lines of XML Data on each 'update'):
[object XMLSocket]
[object XMLSocket]
[object XMLSocket]
[object XMLSocket]
[object XMLSocket]
[object XMLSocket]
Could someone show or point me in the right direction on this. I want to be able to access specific parts of the incoming XML Data.
Here's some sample XML Data:
<MESSAGE VAR="screen2Display" TEXT="CSQ_1" />
<MESSAGE VAR="F1_agentsReady" TEXT="111" />
<MESSAGE VAR="F1_unavailableAgents" TEXT="222" />
<MESSAGE VAR="F1_talkingAgents" TEXT="333" />
<MESSAGE VAR="F1_callsHandled" TEXT="444" />
<MESSAGE VAR="F1_ABDRate" TEXT="555" />
Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated..!
FYI:
I'm VERY new to Actionscript/Flash Developing (*about a week now), so go easy on me haha...
Thanks in Advance,
Matt

Hey Guys, thanks ALOT for the replies!!
Andrei1 and Sinious,
The code I show above is actually just what I found in an example online, and its what i was trying to show you what "they" used
in the URLLoader example. I wasn't trying to use URLLoader, but it was the closest example I found online to what I was trying to
do in terms of processing the XML Data, and not how I read it in. So XMLSocket IS definetly what I'm trying to use because the Server
I'm receiving the XML Data from "pushes" it out every 10 seconds or so. So yea I definatly want to use XMLSocket and not URLLoader...
Sorry for the confusion...
The example you show:
 var xml:XML = new XML(e.data)
Is actually what I had in my original code but I couldn't get it to show anything in the "Output Window" using the trace() method on
it, so I assumed I wasn't doing it correctly...
What my original code was in the "dataHandler()" Function was this:
function dataHandler(e: DataEvent): void
 var xml: XML = XML(e.data);
 if (socket.connected)
 trace(xml);
 msgArea.htmlText += "*socket.connected = TRUE\n"
 } else {
 msgArea.htmlText += "*socket.connected = FALSE\n"
OUTPUT:
And what I get when I run a Debug on it is, in the "msgArea", which is just a simple Text Box w/ Dynamic Text on the main frame it prints:
 "socket.connected = TRUE
 socket.connected = TRUE
 socket.connected = TRUE
 socket.connected = TRUE
 socket.connected = TRUE
 socket.connected = TRUE"
It prints that message 6 times in the msgArea for each XML Message that comes in (*which I think 6 times because there
are 6 "sections/nodes" in the XML Data). But then NOTHING prints in the "Output Window" for the "trace(xml)" command.
Not sure why nothing is showing in the "Output Window", maybe the XML is not complete? But I could see data in the "Output
Window" when I set "e.data" to a string variable, so I know the Data is reaching the program. Since I could see the XML Data in
a string variable, does that mean I can rule out that the XML Data coming in is considered a "complete" XML Document?
Because I wasn't sure if to be considered a complete XML Document it would need to have this included in the message..?
 "<?xml version="1.0"?>"
For the tests I'm running, one single XML message which is being pushed out from the server looks like this:
<MESSAGE VAR="screen2Display" TEXT="Call_Queue_1" />
<MESSAGE VAR="F1_agentsReady" TEXT="111" />
<MESSAGE VAR="F1_unavailableAgents" TEXT="222" />
<MESSAGE VAR="F1_talkingAgents" TEXT="333" />
<MESSAGE VAR="F1_callsHandled" TEXT="444" />
<MESSAGE VAR="F1_ABDRate" TEXT="555" />
Would I need to include that "Header" in the XML message above?
 i.e. "<?xml version="1.0"?>"
Or do I need to be more specific in the trace command instead of just using "trace(xml)"?
Also yes, I already have a Flash Policy file setup and working correctly.
Anyway, thanks again guys for the replies, very much appreciated!!
Thanks Again,
Matt

XMLSocket "Failed to load policy file" error

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Here is the error from FlashFirebug:
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I'm using Flash MX 2004 and i've written a sample socket
server in php. it responds when i telnet in from everywhere:
* using telnet from the Win XP command line from my desktop
* using raw telnet from puTTY from my desktop
* using telnet from the linux command line on the server
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var host:String = 'mydomain.com';
var port:Number = 1234;
mySock = new XMLSocket();
mySock.onConnect = function(success) {
trace('this is my anonymous onConnect function');
trace(' success:' + success);
mySock.send('foobar is what i sent');
trace('here we go, connecting to ' + host + ":" + port);
var foo = mySock.connect(host, port);
trace('connect attempted, foo is ' + foo);
mySock.close();
the trace results are this:
===trace===
here we go, connecting to mydomain.com:1234
connect attempted, foo is true
this is my anonymous onConnect function
success:false
===trace===
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I have put the following crossdomain.xml file at the root of
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===crossdomain.xml===
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM
http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">

<cross-domain-policy>
<allow-access-from domain="*" />
</cross-domain-policy>
===/crossdomain.xml===
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he debug version instead. the trace statements end up in
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I never get any security message or anything. I'm totally
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ALRIGHTY THEN. Thanks so much to all of your for helping so
much.
Given the resounding silence at this very very simple
request, I suppose I must resort to a packet sniffer. I'll report
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in URL specify teh follwoing :
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Fixed it. You've got to have the Labview create listener VI started
first and also outside the while loop. Works great!
[email protected] (greenman) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> I'm attempting to send strings to Labview using the XMLsocket object
> in Macromedia Flash MX. I created a layer in Flash with the following
> Action script:
>
> mySocket = new XMLsocket();
> mySocket.connect("localhost",2055);
>
> Then I created a layer with a button that has the following button
> Action script:
>
> on (release) {
> mySocket.send("mystring");
> }
>
>
> Then I created a Labview program (on the same machine) that has a
> single while loop with code that creates a listener at port 2055 (the
> port connected to
Flash) and some code for reading the port.
>
> This setup works, except Labview will only receive the string once
> from the button push, even though the receive code is in a loop.
> Subsequent button pushes in Flash does not result in characters being
> received in LV. Has anyone here done this before? Thanks.
>
> gm

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<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.adobe.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">

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the first onData method has had time to update test to true)? Can
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Hi Tracy,
Thanks for your reply.
SocketComm is a action script class which maintains XMLSocket
object for the whole application.
package asclasses
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.net.XMLSocket;
import mx.controls.Alert;
public class SocketComm extends Sprite
private var hostName:String = "localhost";
private var port:uint = 8080;
private var socket:XMLSocket;
public function createSocketConnection(hostName:String,
port:uint):XMLSocket {
if(socket == null) {
socket = new XMLSocket();
socket.connect(hostName, port);
}else if(socket != null && !socket.connected) {
socket.connect(hostName, port);
return socket;
Actually now i am able to communicate with server over
XMLSocket.
There was some problem at server side.
But still i am not comfortable with using
SocketComm(XMLSocket) as a common utility class due to event based
asynchronus model. Like in Java Socket all calls are synchronus, I
can easily create common class for socket communication.
But due to my unfamiliarity with event based asynchrous model
of programming, I am facing difficulties.
Like my requirement is to use SocketComm class as a
communication medium with server for various business operations
like add, modify and delete etc. from various Flex UI screens. But
due to event based model, I am not really sure how and when socket
is going to send response.
So if you look at my first post, I have added all listeners
to mxml page but i feel this is not a good design, As i have
atleast 4-5 mxml pages where in I will repeat these listeners.
I would really appreciate if you could provide me some
guidance on using SocketComm class as a effective common class.
Thanks in advance :)
Regards
Tarun

XMLSocket Issue

HI,
I have written a small program which uses XMLSocket to
communicate with some server.
It works for the first time, I mean when i send first
message, I got the response from server but after that flex client
does not send any message to server and i see no exception in the
code.
can anybody pls. help ?
Following is the code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="absolute" width="800" height="600">
<mx:TraceTarget level="0" />
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import asclasses.SocketComm;
import flash.system.Security;
import asclasses.ACTURLLoader;
import mx.controls.Alert;
import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
import mx.rpc.events.FaultEvent;
import mx.rpc.http.HTTPService;
private var response:String;
private var socketComm:SocketComm;
private var sock:XMLSocket;
private var isSocketConnected:Boolean = false;
private function handleTest():void {
// Printing Sandbox
var sandbox:String = Security.sandboxType;
sandboxType.text = sandbox;
if(!isSocketConnected) {
// Local Windows Service
var host:String = winServiceHost.text;
var port:String = winServicePort.text;
socketComm = new SocketComm();
sock = socketComm.createSocketConnection(host, int(port));
configureSocketListeners(sock);
}else {
Alert.show("Entered in else part");
if(sock.connected) {
Alert.show("socket is connected");
try {
sock.send(msg.text+"\n");
}catch(ie:IOError) {
Alert.show(ie.toString());
}else {
Alert.show("sock is not conected");
private function
configureSocketListeners(dispatcher:IEventDispatcher):void {
dispatcher.addEventListener(Event.CLOSE, socketHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener(Event.CONNECT, socketHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener(DataEvent.DATA, socketHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener(ErrorEvent.ERROR,
socketHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener(SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR,
socketHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR,
socketHandler);
dispatcher.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.SOCKET_DATA,
socketHandler);
private function socketHandler(event:Event):void {
var socket:XMLSocket = XMLSocket(event.target);
Alert.show(event.toString());
trace(event.toString());
if(event.type == Event.CLOSE) {
winServiceContent.text = response;
}else if(event.type == SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR) {
socket.close();
}else if(event.type == IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR) {
socket.close();
}else if(event.type == DataEvent.DATA) {
winServiceContent.text += DataEvent(event).data;
}else if(event.type == Event.CONNECT) {
// Sending first msg
Alert.show("Sending Message : " + msg.text);
socket.send(msg.text+"\n");
isSocketConnected = true;
}else if(event.type == ProgressEvent.SOCKET_DATA) {
trace("progressHandler loaded:" +
ProgressEvent(event).bytesLoaded + " total: " +
ProgressEvent(event).bytesTotal);
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Form id="fff" x="36" y="10" width="500"
height="414">
<mx:FormHeading label="Security Test Form"/>
<mx:FormItem label="Sandbox Type">
<mx:Text id="sandboxType"/>
</mx:FormItem>
<mx:FormItem label="Windows Service Host">
<mx:TextInput id="winServiceHost"
text="10.201.205.196"/>
</mx:FormItem>
<mx:FormItem label="Windows Service Port">
<mx:TextInput id="winServicePort" text="8081"/>
</mx:FormItem>
<mx:FormItem label="Command Message">
<mx:TextInput id="msg" />
</mx:FormItem>
<mx:FormItem label="Windows Service Content">
<mx:TextArea id="winServiceContent"/>
</mx:FormItem>
</mx:Form>
<mx:Button label="Test" click="handleTest()" x="54"
y="452"/>
<mx:Button label="Clear" x="132" y="452" />
</mx:Application>

Hi Tracy,
Thanks for your reply.
SocketComm is a action script class which maintains XMLSocket
object for the whole application.
package asclasses
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.net.XMLSocket;
import mx.controls.Alert;
public class SocketComm extends Sprite
private var hostName:String = "localhost";
private var port:uint = 8080;
private var socket:XMLSocket;
public function createSocketConnection(hostName:String,
port:uint):XMLSocket {
if(socket == null) {
socket = new XMLSocket();
socket.connect(hostName, port);
}else if(socket != null && !socket.connected) {
socket.connect(hostName, port);
return socket;
Actually now i am able to communicate with server over
XMLSocket.
There was some problem at server side.
But still i am not comfortable with using
SocketComm(XMLSocket) as a common utility class due to event based
asynchronus model. Like in Java Socket all calls are synchronus, I
can easily create common class for socket communication.
But due to my unfamiliarity with event based asynchrous model
of programming, I am facing difficulties.
Like my requirement is to use SocketComm class as a
communication medium with server for various business operations
like add, modify and delete etc. from various Flex UI screens. But
due to event based model, I am not really sure how and when socket
is going to send response.
So if you look at my first post, I have added all listeners
to mxml page but i feel this is not a good design, As i have
atleast 4-5 mxml pages where in I will repeat these listeners.
I would really appreciate if you could provide me some
guidance on using SocketComm class as a effective common class.
Thanks in advance :)
Regards
Tarun

XMLSocket Class

My Flex Application is using XMLSocketClass for communicating
with Webserver. But connection cannot be established. I am not
getting any error message.
I am using the follwing code for establishing the connection:
=================================================================
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="vertical">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.controls.Alert;
import mx.collections.ArrayCollection;
import flash.net.Socket;
private var socket:XMLSocket;
private function connectToServer():void
socket = new flash.net.XMLSocket();
socket.connect("71.222.34.91", 8002);
function sendData()
var xmlvalue:String=txtData.text.toString()
var
xmlfile:String="<command>GetRevision</command>"
socket.send(xmlfile);
private function getData()
socket.addEventListener(DataEvent.DATA, onData);
private function onData(event:DataEvent):void {
trace("[" + event.type + "] " + event.data);
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:HBox width="80%" horizontalAlign="center">
<mx:TextInput id="txtData" name=""/>
<mx:Button id="btnConnect" label="Connect"
click="connectToServer();btnConnect.enabled = false"/>
<mx:Button id="btnSend" label="Send Data"
click="sendData()"/>
<mx:Button label="getData" id="btnGet"
click="getData()"/>
</mx:HBox>
</mx:Application>
====================================================================
Please help me to handle this error.

Oops! We forgot to sent the server app's EOL and EOF byte
stream. Without them the server app was simply caching the data
until such a byte stream was received.

XMLSocket Problem

I can work fine which run in flash . I can see the connection can established and disconnected until i close the flash
but i publish the flash to html and run in broswer, the flash can connect to server but it will disconnected in the same time. That means i can see the log is established connection then disconnect connnection.
I cannot find the solution.
Please help.
Thank you
flash code :
mySocket = new XMLSocket();
mySocket.onConnect = function(success) {
 if (success) {
 msgArea.htmlText += "Server connection established!";
 } else {
 msgArea.htmlText += "Server connection failed!";
mySocket.onClose = function() {
 msgArea.htmlText += "Server connection lost";
XMLSocket.prototype.onData = function(msg) {
 msgArea.htmlText += msg;
mySocket.connect("dyn.obi-graphics.com", 9999);
//--- Handle button click --------------------------------------
function msgGO() {
 if (inputMsg.htmlText != "") {
 mySocket.send(inputMsg.htmlText+"\n");
 inputMsg.htmlText = "";
pushMsg.onRelease = function() {
 msgGO();

So I switched from XMLSocket to just plain Socket.
I have this now:
var sock:Socket = new Socket();
 sock.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onIOError);
 sock.connect("localhost", 7778);
 sock.writeUTFBytes(xmlMsg);
 sock.flush();
But nothing gets transmitted unless I close the Flex app.
I don't get this. What seems to be a problem?
I read an API docs twice and it says that writeUTFBytes (or any other write methods) are just putting stuff in a buffer
the flush() is the one that signals that the buffer content needs to be sent.
I'm doing just that and still I get nothing on the other side unless I close the Flex app.
Any suggestion?
Thanks
Greg

XMLSocket to localhost problem

Hello!
Doe anyone have experience with XMLSockets that have to connect to the localhost (or 127.0.0.1)?
My flash application can connect to all other servers but not to the server the flash app resides on.
The server accepts the socket but in flash the onConnect event has "false" as parameter. If I ignore this and start sending anyway, sometimes the data is send to the server.
I run windows CE6.0 R3 with flash lite 3.1.
Any Idea's?
Thanks,
John.

Hi,
don't know if it helps still, but i am using XMLSocket on Symbian: my FlashLite code accesses an natice C++ http server, using XMLSOckets.
It works quite well, however i had some small tunings to do:
* XML form (the one which is sent over to the server) has to terminate by '\0'. My code is adding an addtioanla '\0\ at the end, both on the FL code and on the server code
* Of course, you have to publish your FL as "netwrok access"
* .... and also to solve all the security problems (i.e. either crossdomain, or using Trusted subdir).
Voila, not sure how much of ti applies to your plateform !
Jacques.

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